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Soldiers from the First Cavalry

captured Vietcong fighters hiding in a stream

in Bong Son, Vietnam.

 

Dotation Catherine Leroy, via Contact Press Images

 

The Greatest War Photographer You’ve Never Heard Of

One of the few female combat photographers in the war

was also the most daring.

 

Vietnam '67

NYT

March 28, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/28/
opinion/vietnam-leroy-photoessay.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Soldiers from the First Cavalry

captured Vietcong fighters hiding in a stream

in Bong Son in 1967.

 

Photograph: Dotation Catherine Leroy,

via Contact Press Images

 

Related:

In Her Own Words, Photographing the Vietnam War

NYT

Sep. 27, 2017

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/
in-her-own-words-photographing-the-vietnam-war/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The evacuation of a mortally injured Marine in 1966.

 

Photograph: Dotation Catherine Leroy,

via Contact Press Images

 

Related:

In Her Own Words, Photographing the Vietnam War

NYT

Sep. 27, 2017

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/
in-her-own-words-photographing-the-vietnam-war/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Navy corpsman Vernon Wike, with a dying comrade,

near Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, in 1967.

 

Photograph: Dotation Catherine Leroy,

via Contact Press Images

 

The Greatest War Photographer You’ve Never Heard Of

One of the few female combat photographers in the war

was also the most daring.

Vietnam '67

NYT

March 28, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/28/
opinion/vietnam-leroy-photoessay.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Catherine Leroy    France    1945-2006

 

photojournalist

whose stark images of battle

helped tell the story of Vietnam

in Life magazine and other publications

 

(...)

 

Ms. Leroy, who was born in France,

was 21 in 1966 when she bought

a one-way ticket to Saigon

to document American troops

in Vietnam.

 

A year later she was the only

accredited journalist to take part

in a combat parachute jump

with the 173rd Airborne Brigade

during Operation Junction City.

 

Her 1967 photograph

“Corpsman in Anguish”

portrays a young Marine,

his face wrenched in torment,

hunched over the body of his friend

while smoke from the battle

rises behind them.

 

In 1968,  during the Tet offensive,

Ms. Leroy was captured

by the North Vietnamese Army.

 

She managed to talk her way out

and emerged with images

of the army in action

that were published in Life.

 

One was used on the cover

under the headline:

“A Remarkable Day in Hue:

The enemy lets me take his picture,

by Catherine Leroy.”

 

Ms. Leroy worked for the Gamma

and Sipa photo agencies

and later sold her work

to The Associated Press

and United Press International.

 

Her photos appeared

in publications worldwide.

 

She won a George Polk award

for her Vietnam work in 1967

and was the first woman

to receive the Robert Capa Award

for her coverage of the civil war

in Lebanon in 1976.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/
arts/12leroy.html

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Catherine_Leroy

 

 

https://www.lemonde.fr/series-d-ete/article/2021/08/24/
vietnam-liban-somalie-catherine-leroy-une-photographe-en-guerre
_6092228_3451060.html

 

 

 

 

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/
in-her-own-words-photographing-the-vietnam-war/

 

https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2017/09/27/
blogs/in-her-own-words-photographing-the-vietnam-war/s/
27-lens-leroy-slide-1KHE.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/28/
opinion/vietnam-leroy-photoessay.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/10/
arts/10iht-obits.2161333.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/
arts/12leroy.html opinion/vietnam-leroy-photoessay.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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